Song Lyric Sunday | “Life is a Highway” – Rascal Flatts

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Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.

The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “street” but we’re gonna call it a highway this time!

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Originally a 1991 number one song for Canadian Tom Cochrane, Life is a Highway became a top ten hit fifteen years later for American country group Rascal Flatts when they covered the song for Pixar’s animated hit Cars. The song also appears on their 2006 album, Me and My Gang.

This song is a biggie with my family because of Jordan, my three-year-old grand-nephew.

Before he could walk or talk, J was mesmerized by Cars. It got so bad, the only way to calm a fussy, cranky J was to put the DVD on. (Which of course, I bought for him. 😀 ) And he wouldn’t just watch the movie, he had to hear the song.

J also never watched the movie alone. If you were present, you were a part of the Jordan on Lightening

viewing audience. So it’s little wonder, the Arizona part of the family knows all the words to the song… and most of the dialogue in the movie. 🙂

Here he is on his riding Lightening McQueen, and yes, he’s wearing Lightening McQueen sandals too. I have no idea where my sis gets them but he gets a new pair every summer.

After being bought every vehicle in the movie, some twice, J became hooked on YouTube toy videos (I didn’t know there was such a thing) featuring the cars… from Cars. He dragged us all to the TV… several times, to see the race track based on the movie. J got a big surprise when he received his own Ultimate Florida Speedway for Christmas in 2017.

If this were last weekend my video would be of him singing the song since he was here, but he’s with his Gigi so I’m playing this one for Jordan!

Enjoy!

See my Song Lyric Sunday selection on Nesie’s Place.

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Life is a Highway

by Rascal Flatts

Written by Tom Cochrane

[Verse 1]
Whooo umm yeah
Life is like a road that you travel on
When there is one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There is a world outside every darkened door
Where blues will not haunt you anymore
Where brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won’t hesitate
To break down the garden gate
There’s not much time left today

[Chorus]
Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you are going my way
I want to drive it all night long

[Verse 2]
Through all these cities and all these towns
It is in my blood and it is all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver’s lights

Knock me down get back up again
You are in my blood
I am not a lonely man
There is no load I cannot hold
Road so rough this I know
I will be there when the light comes in
Just tell them we are survivors

[Chorus]
Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you are going my way
I want to drive it all night long

Give me give me give me give me yeah

[Chorus]
Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you are going my way
I want to drive it all night long

There was a distance between you and I (between you and I)
A misunderstanding once
But now we look it in the eye

Ooh, yeah

There ain’t no load that I cannot hold
Road so rough this I know
I will be there when the light comes in
Just tell them we are survivors

[Chorus]
Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you are going my way
I want to drive it all night long
Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you are going my way
I want to drive it all night long
Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you are going my way
I want to drive it all night long

Give me give me give me give me yeah

Compiled from SongFacts.com, Genius Lyrics, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Google.

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❤ Adorable pictures and wonderful upbeat song. Thanks for sharing.

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July 29, 2018 at 8:28 am

Felicia Denise says:

Thanks for stopping by! 😉

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July 29, 2018 at 11:20 am

This is so adorable! I’m dying of cuteness! I was in LOVE with this song when it first came out. I also had to endure hours of this movie, since my kiddos were younger when it came out. Great pick!

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July 29, 2018 at 9:38 am

Felicia Denise says:

Thanks, Helen! 🙂

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July 29, 2018 at 11:21 am

I liked the original by Tom Cochrane, and Rascal Flatts does an excellent cover of it. Great choice!

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July 29, 2018 at 2:10 pm

Felicia Denise says:

Until this week’s challenge, I’d forgotten the song was recorded earlier…thought it was a Rascal Flatts original – DUH, Felicia! 😁 I looked his version up on Spotify and I remembered it from back in the day. Tom can be proud his music is timeless.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting. 😊

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July 29, 2018 at 4:47 pm